• US-led airstrike kills 25 Afghans

    Published on : 12 12 2010

    A fresh US-led airstrike has claimed the lives of at least twenty-five people in the eastern Kunar province in war-ravaged Afghanistan. NATO claims that those killed in the Sunday airstrike were all Taliban militants. But the Afghan government has not confirmed the NATO report yet.

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  • Unauthorized US strike kills 6 Pakistanis

    Published on : 11 12 2010

    A non-UN-sanctioned US drone attack has killed at least six people and wounded several others in troubled northwestern Pakistan, security officials say. The incident took place in the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan on Friday evening, a Press TV correspondent reported.

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  • US-led airstrike kills 7 Afghan civilians

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    At least seven Afghan civilians have been killed during the latest spate of US-led air strike in Afghanistan amid the rise in civilian casualties in the war-torn country.The attack took place in Zarmat district in Paktia province on Saturdayn as a group of Afghan road construction workers were working on a project, a Press TV […]

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  • Bomber strikes Pakistan hospital

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    A suicide bomber has blown up a trailer packed with explosives outside a hospital in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 15 people and wounding several dozen, police said.

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  • US strike kills three Afghan women

    Published on : 10 12 2010

    Three women have been killed when a US remote-controlled drone fired a rocket at a car in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province. The spokesman for the Helmand governor’s office, Dawood Ahmadi, said that the incident took place late on Wednesday in Nad Ali district of the province.

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  • Islamic banking seen as superior to Western counterpart

    Published on : 09 12 2010

    SINGAPORE: Malaysia’s outspoken ex-prime minister Mahathir Mohamad on Tuesday blamed Western lending practices for the world’s financial problems and hailed Islamic banking as a “superior” model.

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  • Taliban says 2 US chopper shot down

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    KABUL: Taliban militants claim they have shot down two chopper belonging to the US-led military forces in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar. The Taliban said at least 17 American soldiers were killed after their helicopter was shot down in the troubled region.

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  • Muslims urged to defy Islamophobia

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    A senior member of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has called on the Islamic countries to take “a unified stance” against Islamophobia in the world. Abdullah Alam, the assistant secretary general of the OIC, stressed on the necessity to develop cooperation among Muslim countries.

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  • 35 people killed in Somalia clashes

    Published on : 08 12 2010

    At least 35 people have been killed and 40 others injured in clashes that erupted between rival clans in northern Somalia. The casualties that have been dramatically rising in the past few weeks are reported to be mostly children and women.

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  • Twin bombs kill 50 people in Pakistan

    Published on : 07 12 2010

    At least 50 people have been killed and dozens more injured in two bomb blasts inside a government building in northwestern Pakistan. The blasts destroyed parts of a compound, leaving at least 50 people killed and many others wounded, a Press TV correspondent reported on Monday.

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